It is 3:16 pm in Asia/Kabul
Asia/Kabul is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Kabul in Afghanistan. It is running at UTC+4:30 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Asia/Kabul right now
3:16 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 15:16. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is 4 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC. Half hour offsets catch out code that stores a zone as an integer number of hours, and they are the reason a UTC timestamp converted here lands on :30 or :00 depending on where it started.
No other zone in this list reads UTC+4:30 at this instant, which makes Asia/Kabul the only way to name this clock right now.
The UTC offset of Asia/Kabul
An offset of UTC+4:30 names the meridian 67.5 degrees east, and Kabul, Afghanistan sits at 69.17 degrees east. Those are within 7 minutes of solar time of each other, so this is one of the zones whose clock genuinely matches its own sun.
Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC+4:30 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in Asia/Kabul
Asia/Kabul does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+4:30 in January and reads UTC+4:30 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.
The database holds no clock change for Asia/Kabul in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of Asia/Kabul has changed since 1970
Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. Nothing has changed: Asia/Kabul has been on the same pair of readings for all 57 years sampled. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 2026 | UTC+4:30 | UTC+4:30 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats Asia/Kabul as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.
Countries and regions that use Asia/Kabul
One country uses Asia/Kabul: Afghanistan, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 42,240,000.
Cities in the Asia/Kabul time zone
The 11 cities this site covers inside Asia/Kabul, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.
| City | Where | Time now | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baghlan | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:45 am | 5:48 pm | 12h 03m |
| Bagram | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:43 am | 5:46 pm | 12h 03m |
| Balkh | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:52 am | 5:55 pm | 12h 03m |
| Gardez | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:43 am | 5:46 pm | 12h 03m |
| Ghazni | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:46 am | 5:49 pm | 12h 03m |
| Herat | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 6:11 am | 6:14 pm | 12h 03m |
| Jalalabad | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:38 am | 5:41 pm | 12h 03m |
| Kabul | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:43 am | 5:46 pm | 12h 03m |
| Kandahar | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:57 am | 6:00 pm | 12h 03m |
| Kunduz | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:45 am | 5:47 pm | 12h 03m |
| Mazar-e Sharif | Afghanistan | 3:16 pm | 5:52 am | 5:54 pm | 12h 03m |
The sun against the clock in Asia/Kabul
Worked out for Kabul, Afghanistan, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 34.53 degrees north, 69.17 degrees east. The sun rises at 5:43 am and sets at 5:46 pm, giving 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:45 am, which is 15 minutes before clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Kabul, Afghanistan sitting 1.7 degrees east of the UTC+4:30 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it. Full sunrise and sunset times for Kabul.
Convert Asia/Kabul to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Asia/Kabul is at UTC+4:30 right now, the same reading as UTC, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.
Questions about Asia/Kabul
- What time is it in Asia/Kabul right now?
- 3:16 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What is the UTC offset of Asia/Kabul?
- UTC+4:30 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Asia/Kabul observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC+4:30 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for Asia/Kabul?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+4:30. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use Asia/Kabul?
- Afghanistan.
- Why store Asia/Kabul instead of UTC+4:30?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 0 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+4:30 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Asia/Kabulkeeps working through every future rule change.